flood-5

A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A person in silhouette prays, hands clasped, asking God, "GOD, WHY DO SO MANY CULTURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD HAVE FLOOD MYTHS?" A speech bubble from off-panel (God) answers sheepishly, "OH. UH. WELL..." Panel 2, captioned "BEFORE THE DELUGE...": a tiny white-robed divine figure floats in a cloudy sky beside a small glowing orb (a planet/Earth), saying, "I'M GONNA DO AN EXPERIMENT ON LIFE FORMS IN A SEALED CONTAINER." Another voice replies skeptically, "UH... WITH AN N OF ONE?" The joke frames the biblical flood as God running a poorly-designed scientific experiment. Votey (aftercomic): the divine figure adds in a large speech bubble, "ONLY TWO OF EACH KIND BECAUSE OTHERWISE MY EXCEL SHEET WON'T EVEN LOAD," punning Noah's two-of-each-animal on a spreadsheet that can't handle a bigger sample size; an egg-shaped object sits in a cloudy, wavy landscape below.